For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.”
And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge? If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you; I will make my words known to you. Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded, because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof, I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you,
And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.
O Lord, why do you make us wander from your ways and harden our heart, so that we fear you not? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them. For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they had perished. “So as soon as all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people,
In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him in commandment to them,
And the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone.
And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’
And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
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